Improvement in glove-envelopes



Patented Sep. 3, 1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT (DirrronQ FORTUNE REGLE, NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVE-ENVELOPES.

Specification forming part of L'etters Patent No. 130,997,1iatedSeptember 3, 1872.

SPEcrFIoATroN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, 'FORTUN HEC-LE, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufactureof Kid-Glove Wrappers or Envelopes; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full description of the same.

In my previous invention of an improved kid-glove envelope I thereinstate that, owing to the very delicate colors of opera and other fancykid gloves, they. are very liable to spot by contact with other coloredkid gloves, or by exposure in a damp atmosphere, or by handling bysweaty or moist fingers, and therefore require great care in foldingthem in separate wrappers of clean white paper before they can be safelypacked away in boxes, or exposed for sale. rIhe object of my presentinvention therefore is, to a certain extent, intended to accomplish thesame results as before effected, but by a different method, and

at the same time more economically; and the nature of my new manufactureof kidglove envelopes consists in making from a sheet or sheets of papera wrapper folded at the ends so as to form two pockets, with overlaps attheir edges for the purpose of covering the entire surface of the glovewhen the laps are distended, and at the same time forming an overlap asin the ordinary envelope when the pockets are. separated from the middlepart of the wrapper. But to describe my new manufacture of a kid-glovewrapper or envelope I will refer to the accompanying drawing forming apart of this specication, the same letters of reference wherever theyoccurreferring to like parts.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank of paper from which the wrapper orenvelope is formed, showing by the dotted lines the method of foldingit. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the wrapper as folded to form the pocketsat each end, with the overlaps on the edges of the pockets distended.Fig. 3 is a plan view of the wrapper, showing the overlaps atthe edgesof the pockets folded back so as to expose the color of the glovewithout displacement of it from the wrapper. Fig. 4 is a representationof the wrapper as folded for packing away, with the glove therein. Fig.5 is a representation of the two pockets as separated from the body ofthe wrapper, as indicated by the brackets joining the parts together.

Letter A represents a blank of paper of twenty-one inches long, by sixand a halfinches wide, or any other suitable length and width, accordingto size of glove to be Ainclosed in the wrapper. At B B the edges of theblank are slightly wider than its body. The object of this is, that whenthe blank is folded down on the dotted line C G to form the pockets D D,the marginal edges B B will form an overlap on the body of the wrapper,which, on pasting or gumming thereto, forms the pockets. To the edges ofthe pockets a fly or overlap, E, is attached, with a crease in it forfolding on the dotted line F. The object of this overlap isthreefold-first, as shown in Fig. 2, when distended it entirely inclosesthe glove; second, as shown in Fig. 3, when folded back it exposes thebody of the glove for inspection of color, &c., without the possibilityof the glove getting displaced from the wrapper, or soiled by thefingers, and at the same time, if discarded, where the purchaser looksover great numbers before making a selection, isl quickly andeffectually protected from exposure by the simple operation of foldingthe overlaps down again, as shown in Fig. 2; and third, when the glovesare sold and the pockets separated from the body of the wrapper on thedotted lines G G, the overlaps are then folded over the mouth of thepockets, as shown in Fig. 5, tok form envelopes in which the gloves areinclosed .to be delivered to the purchaser, while the part E, Fig. 5,intervening between the pockuets may be used as sales-checks as toquality and price of gloves sold. In Fig. 4 the wrapper is shown foldedon the dotted line J J, of about the width of the glove and in the usualshape in which gloves are folded in wrappers to be packed in boxes. Whenthus folded it will be seen that the glove cannot escape fromthe-wrapper by slipping out at the ends, as would be the case if theglove was only held in one pocket, as shown in my former invention, forwhich reason it is not deemed as practical, useful, or economical ofmanufacture as my present invention.

Having now described my new manufacture pockets, and folded and shapedsubstantially of kid-glove wrappers or envelopes, Iwill set asdescribed, and for the purposes set forth.

forth what I claim and desire to secure by FORTUNE HEGLE. Letters Patentof the United States.

I claim- Witnesses:

As a new article of manufacture, a kid- R. ROWLEY,

glove wrapper or envelope, made with two CHARLES L. BARRITT.

